Yep, there's already a FAQ line on this limit... http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/FAQ
"What are some limits in memcached I might hit? The simple limits you will probably see with memcache are the key and item size limits. Keys are restricted to 250 characters. Stored data cannot exceed 1 megabyte in size, since that is the largest typical slab size." On Nov 22, 7:33 am, Saptarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I see, thanks. Right now I'm using memcached as a distributed > clipboard and i guess I shouldn't be. > ANy object bigger than 1MB i split into chunks of C kb and an > identifier key,value to string them together. > I'll look into entangled. > Thanks for a nice and easy to use app. > Regards > Saptarshi > > On Nov 22, 2008, at 2:58 AM, Dustin wrote: > > > > > On Nov 21, 11:38 pm, Saptarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> Thanks for the prompt answer. Is there a specific reason why? > > > I'm sure it's come up many times on the list(s) and there are > > probably good answers written, but it's not in the FAQ. That might be > > a good addition for any FAQ maintainers out there. :) > > >> Do the algorithms depend on the size limit? > > > Slabbing might become more inefficient as you get into really large > > blocks, but there's nothing inherent. > > Saptarshi Guha | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~sguha
